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The Trump Administration Had $250,000 to Blow

It could have gone to help the people of Puerto Rico Trump has spat on and ridiculed. But no, instead he blew it on sending Mike Pence to a ball game and ordering him to stage a walkout in order to gin up his white jingo base. You know, the ones who really care about […]

The Gospel Approach to the Goods of this World

vs. the American Social Darwinist Approach: If the totality of your grasp of Catholic Social Teaching is “Subsidiarity means I earned it and I get to keep it” you have embraced a radically deformed gospel and need to learn about the Dignity of the Human Person, the Common Good, and Solidarity. The gospel treats our […]

It’s the Month of St. Francis, so…

….through October, Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity feature artists to inspire discerning reflections on peace and all good. Listen, enjoy and reflect on the deeply felt music of Franciscan Friar of the Renewal Fr. Tansi Obisi, CFR, Arwen Lewis, Austin songwriter Rick Busby and Folk Music Legend Jean Ritchie.

The Indomitable Brandon Vogt…

…has a new book out! It’s coming out today in a beautiful hardcover edition from Ave Maria Press. To celebrate the book, Brandon also created a FREE 5-part video series titled “5 Reasons to Be Catholic.” Here’s the first one: You can see the rest here.

On this Day in History

On October 6, 3018 of the Third Age of Middle Earth this happened:

Dr. Dawn Eden Goldstein and Dr. Robert Fastiggi…

…continue to throw a faithful spanner in the works of the Francis-haters and their “filial correction” of the Holy Father. It seems that the case for the Amoris laetitia critics’ self-proclaimed “Filial Correction” (1) of Pope Francis is weakening. Dr. Joseph Shaw, one of the signers of the Correctio filialis, recently wrote: “It is not that we’re saying […]

Jesus and the Canaanite Woman

Introduction to a Study. My latest over at The Catholic Weekly, in which we will take an in-depth look at a difficult text, some problematic interpretations of it, and what I think is the most reasonable reading of it. Here’s a taste, but click on the link above for the whole smack: This is, to […]

Any Washingtonians Who Know about Anti-Euthanasia Advocacy Groups

We have a friend of the family with Lou Gehrig’s Disease.  She is a simple soul, a head injury victim who is easily pushed around.  A couple of months ago, she finally got assisted living care.  She did not want euthanasia and is a Catholic, but a palliative care group has managed to talk her […]

People are asking what I think of Leah Libresco-Sargeant’s piece

…on gun control.  She writes: Before I started researching gun deaths, gun-control policy used to frustrate me. I wished the National Rifle Association would stop blocking common-sense gun-control reforms such as banning assault weapons, restricting silencers, shrinking magazine sizes and all the other measures that could make guns less deadly. Then, my colleagues and I […]

The Alt Right Attempt to Co-Opt the Family

Rebecca Bratten Weiss writes of this cartoon: This pic was taken from Alt Right sites, and shared round by catholics, with a quotation from JPII slapped on. I am going to hope that they simply weren’t thinking, or are unaware that “saving the west” is a dog-whistle for white supremacy (things l learned in my […]